Unwed Fathers - Deer Tick, Liz Isenberg

In an Appalachian, Greyhound station

She sits there waiting, in a family way

Goodbye brother, tell Ma I love her

Tell all the others that I’ll write someday

From an teenage lover to an unwed mother

Kept undercover like some bad dream

While unwed fathers, they can’t be bothered

They run like water through a mountain stream

In a cold and gray town, a nurse says lay down

This ain’t no playground and this ain’t home

Someone’s children out having children

In a gray stone building, all alone

From an teenage lover to an unwed mother

Kept undercover like some bad dream

While unwed fathers, they can’t be bothered

They run like water through a mountain stream

Somewhere else bound, Smokey Mountain Greyhound

She bows her head down, singing lullabies

Your daddy never meant to hurt you ever

He just don’t live here but you’ve got his eyes

From an teenage lover to an unwed mother

Kept undercover like some bad dream

While unwed fathers, they can’t be bothered

They run like water, through a mountain stream

Oh, they run like water through a mountain stream